GUADEC 2005 Call for Papers

The Gnome Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC) invite you to participate in the Sixth Conference on the 29th, 30th and 31st of May, 2005, Stuttgart, Germany.

GUADEC will bring together developers, GNOME Foundation leaders
and individuals, business and government GNOME and Free and Open
Source software users. The conference is a unique forum for
highlighting the capabilities and direction of GNOME, the user
environment for desktops, networked servers and portable Internet
devices. GUADEC will also feature discussions on the future
direction of development of Free Software and Open Source software in
general.

We're looking for people to give

Talks

Tutorials

Posters

Panels

Planning Sessions / BOFS

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Desktop/system integration

Multimedia support

Desktop standards

Office productivity software

GNOME for Everyone

GNOME Community groups

GNOME in Education

GNOME in Government

GNOME on Small Devices

Refereed Papers Track

GUADEC seeks original papers describing research in all areas
based on GNOME or related to Free and Open Source Software. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Accepted papers will appear on the Web site and we plan to publish them in conference proceedings.

Any featured software in papers must be available under a
licence compatible with both the Free
Software Definition and the Open Source
Definition. Any papers that are accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms will be rejected. All successful papers must be eligible for republication on-line and on distribution media given to conference attendees.

The GNOME Foundation requires publication rights to accepted papers, including the publication of the audio proceedings as well as publication and reproduction rights to any video filmed during the presentations. These rights are non-exclusive. Copyright ownership is retained by the author. You will be asked to sign an agreement to these conditions upon arrival at the conference.

Paper Submission

Authors of papers are invited to submit abstracts (150 - 400
words) in plain text, before January 12th 2005. Abstracts should
be accompanied by a short biographical note, and a photograph
suitable for printing (at least 768x1024).

Authors should also state whether they will require financial
assistance to attend. This information will not be used to
decide the merits of the presentation, but will allow the
organisers to better allocate resources.

Final papers (1500 - 4000 words, or maximum 5 pages) are due
March 1st 2005.